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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours An introduction to some of the central questions and themes in philosophy. By acquiring basic skills and concepts in logic, students learn to pursue those questions with logical rigor and critical thinking.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Co-requisites: Composition 120 and FRS 140 Examines the birth of self-critical reflection from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Plato, Aristotle, and Greco-Roman philosophy up through the philosophy of the high middle ages, e.g., Aquinas and Occam.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisites: Composition 120 and FRS 140 Exploration of the questions, themes, and perspectives of the early modern philosophers, ranging from the continental Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz) to the British Empiricists (Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, and Berkeley). Other early modern thinkers like Pascal or Rousseau may also be addressed.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisites: Composition 120 and FRS 140 Beginning with the pivotal Enlightenment critiques of Hume and Kant, this course will explore how 19th century thinkers (such as Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche) and early 20th century thinkers (such as Heidegger, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Whitehead) responded to and developed philosophy in wake of the Enlightenment.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisites: Composition 120 and FRS 140 Exploration of some of the major philosophical movements in the 20th and early 21st centuries, such as existentialism, phenomenology, logical positivism, linguistic and analytic philosophy, and process philosophy.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisites: Composition 120 and FRS 140 An exploration of central themes, thinkers, and schools of thought in American philosophy, ranging from New England transcendentalists (Emerson & Thoreau) to pragmatists (Piece, James, Dewey) to neo-pragmatists (Rorty) to contemporary political theorists (Rawls, Sandel).
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3 credit hours Prerequisite: Any philosophy course or junior standing Religious symbols and systems studied from a philosophical perspective. Among questions the course considers are the nature of religious language, approaches to religious truth, various conceptions of divinity, and whether or not humans are naturally religious.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: Any philosophy course or junior standing An exploration of religious beliefs, attitudes and practices from the standpoint of religion's critics, both those within and without religious traditions.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: Any philosophy course or junior standing The study of competing philosophical conceptions of the world and of reality as expressions of human, cultural, and intellectual diversity. Western and non-Western philosophies will be compared and critically examined.
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3.00 Credits
3 credit hours Prerequisite: Any philosophy course or junior standing An in-depth exploration of a philosophical topic, the course may examine a selected area of philosophy, some selected problem, or some specific thinker or school of thought in Western and/or non-Western philosophy.
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